flower water / thrones

Yesterday, I went over to my friend Liz's house. She has tea rose and mock orange in full bloom, so we made flower waters with each.

The rose petals at the ready:

and the mock orange:

We simmered each for a few hours, then strained the petals off and let them cool. The rose petal mash (still weirdly flesh-like) reminded me of a recipe I'd read for making your own rosary beads. So we simmered them again, this time in a cast iron pan where they turned purple! The recipes I have seen actually say to do this process for three days, but we opted for an abbreviated version.

The beads, on a wire to dry:

Afterward, we went and saw Thrones at Tube, which was sortof and odd vibrational space. I was leaning against those metal rabbit murals and totally got a back massage from the vibrations.
But yeah, totally great to be back in the NW!